December Updates and Information for Students, Families and Staff

To review the December, 2021 Valley Unified Education Service Center Update for Students, Families and Staff click here or on the image below.  We wish you all a safe, happy, healthy Holiday Season.

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Upcoming Voluntary School-Based Vaccination Clinics

The Valley Unified Education Service Center will partner with St. John Valley Pharmacy to host and conduct additional voluntary school-based Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination clinics for 5-11 year old elementary school children and for high school students age 16 and older.  

These voluntary clinics will be held on January 13 and 14 and February 3 and 4, 2022.  Only those students whose parents have signed consent forms will be vaccinated.

For details on the dates and times of the clinics in your child's school, go to bit.ly/3q9nlBx or click on the image below.  Have a healthy and happy holiday season.

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First Alternative Schooling Enrollment Report for 2021-2022

Since the start of the 2021-2022 school year until this month, 72 students from the three high schools in the Upper St. John Valley have participated in the Valley Unified Education Service Center Alternative Schooling program.

To review our most current Alternative Schooling Enrollment Report for 2021-2022, go to bit.ly/3EPn5O7 or click on the image below.

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More Voluntary School Based Vaccination Clinics Are Coming

The Valley Education Service Center partnered with Northern Maine Medical Center and St. John Valley Pharmacy to deliver second dosages of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination to 5-11 year olds through voluntary school-based vaccination clinics this week.  First dosages were administered at school-based clinics in November.

Additional voluntary school-based vaccination clinics are being arranged for dates in mid-January (first dosage) and early February, 2022 (2nd dosage).  When details are finalized, dates, times and location will be posted here and on school websites and Facebook pages.

For more information concerning COVID-19 child vaccines, parents and families are encouraged to contact the School Nurse at the elementary school in their community.  Click here for elementary school nurse contact information.

Parents and families interested in having their children vaccinated prior to January, 2022 can arrange to do so through either St. John Valley Pharmacy in Fort Kent or through Northern Maine Medical Center weekly clinics in Fort Kent and Madawaska (Acadia Family Health in Madawaska - Mondays, 4 PM to 6 PM and Fort Kent Family Practice - Wednesdays, 4 PM to 6 PM).

To schedule a child vaccination appointment through Northern Maine Medical Center, go to nmmc.org/covid-resource-center/.  To schedule a child vaccination appointment through St. John Valley Pharmacy, call 834-2880.

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Maine DOE Announces Webinar for Parents Concerning COVID-19 Vaccination for Children

The Maine Department of Education News Room has put out a press release about an upcoming webinar for parents and families on COVID-19 vaccines for school-aged children.  To access information concerning the webinar, go to bit.ly/3Dfixz6 or click on the image below.

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